The United States is shipping more than 10 million Covid-19 vaccine doses to Bangladesh, making the country the biggest recipient of Washington's global donations, the White House said.

“This is our single largest donation to date and will make Bangladesh our largest recipient of doses,” a White House official told AFP.

The latest batch amounts to 10,001,160 Pfizer doses sent through Covax, the global distribution initiative co-led by public-private partnership Gavi.

Garment workers return from a workplace as factories reopened after the government has eased the restrictions amid concerns over the Covid-19 outbreak in Dhaka, Bangladesh on May 4, 2020. — Reuters
Garment workers return from a workplace as factories reopened after the government has eased the restrictions amid concerns over the Covid-19 outbreak in Dhaka, Bangladesh on May 4, 2020. — Reuters

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